Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Everything you can imagine is real.

One man with courage is a majority.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.